School Resource Officer Geoff Hamlin, above right, and Police Chief Jeff Lynn, far right, speak to a group of Oak Heights School students who participated in a National Walk and Bike to School event Wednesday morning, Oct. 7. At right, a “walking school bus” group of students and adults follow Oak Heights Principal Courtney Murphy, in orange, down Evergreen Lane. Students met at City Hall, Elm Street Baptist Church and Hillside Fellowship on Strawberry Loop to walk to Oak Heights, which has been working to develop a Safe Routes to School “action plan” to create safe, convenient and fun opportunities for children to bicycle and walk to and from schools, which 50 percent of students did in 1969; now it is 15 percent.
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